Why I'm starting this new blog.

I have a lot of idle time on my hands lately.  I left Bentley's Resort Tiki Bar on August 21st.  I didn't expect to be out of work for as long as I have, and I was beginning to get a little nervous because I have never been without a job since starting work when I was a teenager, but things have turned out alright.  I started working at Mattison's Forty-One in Sarasota on October 24th, but it only took me about a week to realize that this wasn't going to be what I had hoped it would be.  Luckily the Bonefish Grill that is being built in Venice just over a mile from my house called me for an interview.  I talked with the G.M. on Tuesday the 25th, then the FOH manager on the 26th.  They hired on the spot.  They told me I was the first hire at the new location!  It kinda gave me a good, warm fuzzy feeling inside!

The next day I told the G.M. at Mattison's that I would work until Thanksgiving, (he already knew I had a vacation planned for that weekend) but that I would then be leaving to start at the Bonefish in the beginning of Dec.  I told him I would understand if he didn't want to put me on the schedule and would want to start training someone else to get ready for the upcoming season instead.  He said he would think about that.  I worked three rather unproductive days last week, and this week I was not put on the schedule, much to my delight.

So that's where I stand right now, unemployed until the Bonefish opens, tentative date Dec. 12th.  But I am now actually enjoying the free time I have.  I don't feel nervous about not working because I am confident that the Bonefish is going to be a very fun and profitable place to work, close to home and with great hours.  (they don't open for lunch, and they close no later than midnight.

So, with all this free time, and feeling much less anxiety about being out of work, I have decided to post random thoughts that pass through my aging, seemingly unchallenged mind, and to ask for feedback on those thoughts, opinions, insights, and otherwise nonsensical rants that I post here.  I ask anyone and everyone I know, or anyone and everyone who should stumble across this blog to reply.  You don't have to agree, as a matter of fact that would be boring, I'd much rather read some disagreements.  That would make this much more interesting.

In addition, I am hoping to get back on track with the "My Life Behind Bars" blog that I started way back when.  I haven't posted anything to it in over a year.  I got to a point where I was afraid I might start offending people.  I think now though, that my thoughts and opinions about ANYTHING should not cause others to be offended.  I will just tell things as I remember them, as I believed them to be, and I'll hope that nothing I write will be construed as being hurtful, it will be just my take on my own life.